Designers News & Articles

Most designers face budgetary challenges as often as they face creative ones. At times like these, designers take notice of software that helps enhance design while saving money. For new start up shops that can't fork over the bucks that Adobe requires for licenses like Photoshop and Illustrator, or for designers who just like to try new things, meet Aviary.

Betas are always a joy. They give you the opportunity to review new and upcoming products prior to actual release. You get the opportunity to see what new features are available and help work out bugs in programs to ensure proper functioning when they are actually released. We took the opportunity to try out the new Adobe betas released by Adobe Labs last week — starting with Dreamweaver CS4.

Leave it to the Parisians to build and market a CMS tool for designers. The Paris-based company Global Moxie and its Chief Scientist, Josh Clark (okay, so he’s an American in Paris…) announced the release of Big Medium 2, a web content management system aimed squarely at web designers.

Why? Because designers are awesome, that’s why!